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Vincent van Gogh born near Brabant in 1853 and Pablo Picasso born in Spain in 1881 were to be two of the most influential artists that have ever existed. They were both geniuses who revolusionised the world of painting. Society in those days was used to seeing classical paintings of respectable people or landscapes, not the world as it was perceived by revolutionary artists. What these two artists managed to do was to break art into different pieces, analyse and experiment all the different possibilities of manipulating and altering paint to get different effects on canvas. Most important of all was, they painted their feelings and how they saw the world around them in their own minds, instead of how everyone perceived it every day. They shook the world and challenged people to view their lives in a different manner and although fresh and new, they broke established outmoded traditions. Agos